B.a.d Lab: Test Results is a series of short exhibitions in which invited artists and B.a.d members experiment with forms of exhibiting.

For this edition, we proudly present Willem de Haan, Quinda Verheul, and Kamiel Verschuren. All three artists work in different ways to interact with their public, both inside and outside of art spaces. Therefore, they will literally step out into the open while using the B.a.d Lab as a base.

Visitor information: Please come to the B.a.d. building on Saturday 27 October at 4pm. At 5pm, there will be an excursion to a location near Foundation B.a.d. Neighborhood residents are also invited to join.

Current B.a.d guests Yasmim Flores (visual artist) and Angelo Ursini (multi-instrumentalist and composer) present multidisciplinary performances, sound installations and interactive platforms. In their performances as Duo YaGe, they create paths and games of improvisations between dance, music and drawing. The investigation of gestures and “live composing”, using improvisational dance as a basis, guides their research. Departing from a minimal structure or score, the pieces develop through improvisation and in dialogue with each specific context. The duo is planning a tour of presentations across Europe in the coming years.

At the core of my practice is an interest in humour and language and their ability to engage with areas of slippage and overlap. Since graduating with honours in 2006, I have worked across various media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, video, and installation. During this time, I have also experimented with collaboration, sound, performance, writing, and music-based events.

My work often develops from my engagement with text and semiotics and my concern with the tropes of the underclass. I am interested in using humour and language to find new ways of understanding how the complex field of intellectual and socio-political contexts impact on the role and expectations of contemporary art. I am also drawn to humour as a possible strategy for deflecting traditional systems of exegesis.

(English)INDUOS brings together individual musicians who will perform as duos, especially for this event. An eclectic experience with performance art, free jazz punk, improv world tunes, electro noise, trippy spacy techno, and ending up with a streaming, pounding dance floor.

INDUOS is presented as part of Charlois Speciaal, a ten-day art festival in Charlois, Rotterdam.

Toine Horvers
Toine Horvers invites people to sing a song in a foreign language. Having written the lyrics phonetically, during Induos he will perform the songs on stage with the invited people.

Michiel Moekerk & Marta González
Marta González plays cello and Michiel Moekerk the ngoni and djembe. As a duo, this promises to be an exciting combination. What exactly they are going to do remains secret.

Henk Bakker & Ghaeth Almaghoot
Although the clarinet and bass clarinet are part of the same family of instruments, the two musicians playing them for this event are far apart on the musical spectrum. Through improvisation, Henk Bakker and Ghaeth Almaghoot take on the challenge of bringing these two extremities closer together into something spectacular.

Vanita Monk & Robert Kroos
Something with a touch of elektro and noise. Vanita Monk and Robert Kroos will let it crackle – electrically crackle. They’ve earned their spurs with the highly diverse musical and non-musical activities. Tonight, however, it will crackle.

Dead Neanderthals
‘If you’re into heavy duos, this is unmissable,’ according to online magazine Pitchfork. Dead Neanderthals is the free-jazz punk duo par excellence. A hurricane of adrenaline – when you first hear it you’ll be like a rabbit caught in headlights. It’s exceedingly refined! Drums and saxophone! In addition to their abrasive sets, they’ve just released the wonderfully fine-tuned drone cd Life, and, with Rotterdam-based Machinefabriek, Smelter. Something to behold for a new life-changing experience!

Nadia Struiwigh
There’s an exception to every rule, for INDUOS it’s Nadia Struiwigh. She has just released a new record, WHHRU, on which she determines her own style. It’s ambient, it’s techno, but then again it’s neither. It’s experimental electronics, but this description also falls short. Performing live, she can put on an impressive concert that develops in a scorching techno set. As seen and heard at the latest edition of Rewire.

DJ duo Naam
Hidden beneath this unusual moniker (‘naam’ is Dutch for ‘name’) is a duo that will supply an eclectic mix of extraordinarily diverse and danceable music. Can’t say more…

English
B.a.d Lab: Test Results is a series of short-term exhibitions by artists from inside and outside Foundation B.a.d. Together, the participants experiment with forms of exhibiting.B.a.d Lab: Test Results #2 features Raquel Vermunt, Marco Douma, and Niki van Strien, whose works focus on sensory experience. For these artists, the execution of this exhibition is an extension of the process of making their work. In B.a.d Lab: Test Results #2, new conceptual and visual connections between the (video) works and soundscapes arise. Focusing attention is the foundation of these works: through stillness, the audience can experience the texture of the artist’s images.

English
Foundation B.a.d launches B.a.d Lab: Test Results, an exhibition series in which artists from different generations present together and experiment with forms of presenting their work. We proudly present Jan Bokma and Hilde Onis. Both create sculptures starting from the materials and objects of everyday life, which they relate to larger structures of memory and beauty. Please visit us and check the first Test Results.
This presentation is made as part of South Explorer

Kitchen Party

Welcome to B.a.d’s Kitchen Party, our contribution to the upcomingSouth Explorerevent. The kitchen is our building’s heart; it’s where we meet, where chance encounters happen, and where we welcome you. Our Kitchen Party exhibition pays homage to this humble yet important space. We’re serving tea, coffee, and soup and bread all day. Join us! Our door is always open

Geo Wyeth works with music, performance, installation, and video. Recent presentations include at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoMA PS1, LA MoCA, The New Museum, New York Live Arts, The Studio Museum, Harlem, Boston ICA, Kate Werble Gallery, La MaMa Theatre, Human Resources, The Pyramid Club, and Joe’s Pub. S/he completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2016 and is currently based between Rotterdam and New York.

Eleanor Zurowski

Eleanor Zurowski is a Sydney-based artist whose practice examines notions of care and labour. She often works with the material and symbolism of bread. By engaging with its relationships to histories, culture, religion, and society, she pays homage to a basic food that provides sustenance in many different ways.

Quinda-Abraham is a collaboration of Quinda Verheul and Abraham Meeuwsen. Respectively, they graduated from the Dutch Art Institute in 2015 and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in 2014. Their work addresses topics such as spirituality, capitalism, and the environment and reflects on natural and artificial phenomena.

Mimì Enna, born in Oristano in 1991, lives and works between the Netherlands and Italy. She is interested in the meaning of the image in its daily context. In her work, photographs or found images (from books, the internet, etc.) interact with performance, video and installation, creating an interaction among them, and reflecting on how the media and art are connected to the everyday life habits. Marathon for lazy people is a movie marathon in her studio at BAD, running for the whole duration of the event. The public is invited to participate. (Yes, popcorn will be provided).

Koes Staassen‘s drawings reveal and conceal, in a playful and erotic manner, the mechanisms of desire. He recently started making collages, using photographic material, to frame the gaze that falls upon his friends and collaborators.

“Food is life. Art is a reflection of life. As an artist I am interested in what we put in our mouth and what the effects might be of this action. There are 3 elements in my work that are essential: food, ethics, and bringing people together. As a creator, I think it’s important to trigger all the senses and to give people an experience. To use food as a tool, try to find a material that is understandable for everyone.”

Fire, Smoke, Steam is a free one-day workshop on pit cooking using an earth oven. An earth oven is a pit in the ground used to trap heat for baking, smoking, or steaming food. For millennia, earth ovens have featured in many cultures, and archaeologists often seek their presence as a key sign of past human settlement.

The workshop will feature different activities, including cooking a vegetarian meal using this ancient technique. Together, participants dig up the results and conclude the day with slow-cooked delights.

Please wear warm shoes and warm rainproof clothing because the workshop requires spending most of the day outdoors.